Combined desk blotter-pad and calendar



(No Model.)

P; B. GIBBS.

COMBINED DESK BLOTTER PAD AND CALENDAR.

No. 450,741. Patented Apr. 21, 1891.

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A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLETCHER l3. GIBBS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED DESK BLOTTER-PAD AND CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,741, dated April 21, 1891.

Application filed November 28,1890. Serial No. 372,833. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLETCHER B. GIBBS, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Desk Blotting-Pad and Calendar, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The object of my present invention is to provide an improved desk blotting-pad adapted to receive a calendar and to provide an improved calendar adapted to be attached upon the blotting-pad, so that the calendar will at all times be in sight and be convenient for the purpose of making memorada thereon.

I accomplish my object as illustrated in the drawings and as hereinafter described.

v That which I claim as new will be pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates a base-board, having pockets to to receive the corners of one or more sheets a of blottingpaper and provided above the same with supplemental pockets 0 c for retaininga calendarblock B. The calendar-blookB is made up in suitable form of a number of leaves or sheets of paper, which are blocked together and mounted upon a flexible base A, having each end projecting as a flange Z). The calendarblock B is adapted to be attached through the medium of its projecting end flanges I) entering the supplemental pockets 0, formed 011 the base-board. The flexibility of the base A enables the calendar-block to be sprung into and out of the pockets 0, as will be obvious.

By providing the base-board A with the supplement-al pockets 0 it is readily and economically adapted to receive the calendarblock B, and by the projecting end flanges b of the flexible base A of the calendar-block the latter is readily and economically adapted to be secured in position on the base-board.

The improved constructionprovides a novel, desirable, and efficient blotting-pad and calendar, wherein the latter is at alltimes plainly in sight and convenient for the purpose of making memoranda thereon.

I do not broadly claim a combined blottingpad and calendar, but,

Having thus described my in vention, WhatI claim is- A combined blotting-pad and calendar, consisting of a base-board A, having pockets ato receive the corners of blotting-sheets and supplemental pockets 0 in juxtaposition thereto, and a calendar-block having a base A, provided with opposite end flanges I), respectively engaging the supplemental pockets, substantially as and for the purpose described.

FLETCHER B. GIBBS.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. JACKSON, ALBERT I-l. ADAMS. 

